Ed Leon Klinger suggested that rapid AI progress might lead civilizations to transfer consciousness into compact digital systems, which could explain why advanced aliens remain undetected under the Fermi Paradox. Mike Kupari replied that consciousness is inseparable from physical brain matter and cannot be transferred like software. SightBringer added that copying brain function would create a duplicate while leaving the original observer to die, leaving an unresolved identity issue. Roon pointed to the Permian extinction as evidence that life faces no guarantee of continuation.
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Posts question whether advanced civilizations upload consciousness into digital systems to explain the Fermi Paradox.
Ed Leon Klinger suggested that rapid AI progress might lead civilizations to transfer consciousness into compact digital systems, which could explain why advanced aliens remain undetected under the Fermi Paradox. Mike Kupari replied that consciousness is inseparable from physical brain matter and cannot be transferred like software. SightBringer added that copying brain function would create a duplicate while leaving the original observer to die, leaving an unresolved identity issue. Roon pointed to the Permian extinction as evidence that life faces no guarantee of continuation.
Some accounts welcomed discussion of hyper-advanced aliens with AGI while many others rejected consciousness upload as impossible or likely to produce only a miserable copy.
Based on 58 sentiment-bearing replies from 50 accounts across 2 conversations.


Some accounts welcomed discussion of hyper-advanced aliens with AGI while many others rejected consciousness upload as impossible or likely to produce only a miserable copy.
Based on 58 sentiment-bearing replies from 50 accounts across 2 conversations.